Walt Whitman Jr. was born on may 31 1819 in Long Island
He published Leaves of the Grass in 1855.
He was the second son of Walt Whitman Sr. and Lousaia Whitman.
The Whitmans were a farming family
They lived in the west hills near the town of Huntington on long island
Walt was born in a two story house with wide planked floors, that his father had built
Slavery was legal until Walt was 8
As a young child Walt saw slaves in his grandmothers kitchen eating there dinner of milk and Indian pudding
At the age of 12 Walt began his working life.
From 1825-1830 Walt attended a public school.
In 1830 Walt quit school and worked as a office boy.
In 1836 Walt became a teacher on Long Island.
From March 1846 to January 1848 he works for the Daily Eagle
In 1846, while he was a reporter, he wrote the famous “The Game of Ball is Glorious”.
In 1855, a volume of Whitman’s revolutionary work “The Leaves of Grass”, was delivered to Emerson’s home, Emerson was very impressed.
In February 1860, Whiteman got a letter from Charles Eldridge and William Thayer, saying that they wanted to publish his poems
On April 12 1861 the civil war begins and his brother Geroge enlistes in the military.
On December 1862 Walts learns that his brother Geroge is wounded and goes to Virgina.
In 1863 Walt moves to Washington D.C. and visits military hospitals
In 1887, Whitman gave his famous “Death of Abraham Lincoln” speech. (Walt Whitman)
In 1892, March 26 Whitman dies.)
His father was a house builder.
He had eight brothers and sisters.
After the breakout of the Civil War, Whitman vowed to live a cleansed life.
What Whitman loved about New York City was the cosmos.
A picture of Walts house
Poem Ideas
I Hear America Singing I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it whould be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it whould be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches; Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself; But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not; And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room; It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends, (For I believe lately I think of little else than them:) Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love; For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space, Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near, I know very well I could not.
Walt Whitman: by Michael, Ally C, and Mia
Facts
Poem Ideas
I Hear America SingingI hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it whould be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Walt Whitmans tomb
Walt's tomb
I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWINGby: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;
Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;
But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not;
And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room;
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than them:)
Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near,
I know very well I could not.
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